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Peter Sellers Covers The Beatles And The Bard In 6 Accents (With Apologies To Laurence Olivier, The Irish And Shakespeare)

Peter Sellers Covers The Beatles And The Bard In 6 Accents (With Apologies To Laurence Olivier, The Irish And Shakespeare)

Peter Sellers, the comic actor who gave flesh and 'berms' to Inspector Clouseau in the ...
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Vladimir Nabokov Browses Lolita Covers With Dr Freud

Vladimir Nabokov Browses Lolita Covers With Dr Freud

Interviewer: “Mr Nabokov, would you tell us why it is that you detest Dr. Freud?” ...
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A Time Before Netflix: Vintage TV Movie of the Week Adverts

A Time Before Netflix: Vintage TV Movie of the Week Adverts

  Before Netflix, before DVR, before premium movie channels, before even DVD and VHS, you ...
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The World’s First Illustrations for H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds (1897)

The World’s First Illustrations for H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds (1897)

H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel The War of the Worlds was first illustrated by London-born Warwick Goble ...
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Polaroids Of Snogging At A 1960s Make Out Party

Polaroids Of Snogging At A 1960s Make Out Party

Photographer and snapshot guru Lauren Leja has sent in this great album of Polaroids. Dubbed 'Make ...
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Boys Dressing Badly: 1978 Montgomery Ward Junior Fashions

Boys Dressing Badly: 1978 Montgomery Ward Junior Fashions

Ask the class who loves 1970s fashions and I'll be the first to raise my ...
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Berenice Abbott’s New York Stores  (1930s)

Berenice Abbott’s New York Stores (1930s)

Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer renowned for ...
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Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native ...
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Play-Doh Faces: Mesmerising Portraits In The Meatyard Mold

Play-Doh Faces: Mesmerising Portraits In The Meatyard Mold

In Photographs, Portuguese photographer Tomba Lobos merges Play-Doh and human faces to creates pictures that give ...
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Joe Strummer’s Wild Westway Western Wear And Sandpaper Blues

Joe Strummer’s Wild Westway Western Wear And Sandpaper Blues

I first met artist/curator Robert Gordon McHarg III two decades ago, when he was developing ...
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The Classic World Domination Game: Celebrating RISK (Parker Brothers)

The Classic World Domination Game: Celebrating RISK (Parker Brothers)

  In 1959, Parker Brothers licensed from creator Albert Lamorisse (1922-1970) a game called “Conquest ...
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Belles Lettres: The Naked Alphabet (1971)

Belles Lettres: The Naked Alphabet (1971)

In 1971, Dutch artists, photographers and graphic designers Ed van der Elsken (10 March 1925 – ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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